Hi all,
When playing games I have an issue with FPS stuttering/drops. It will drop for less than a second, then resume a normal frame rate. After a lot of troubleshooting I believe it's an issue with the HDD or RAM. My HDD will max out at 100% disk usage while playing games. Then it has thousands of hard page faults. This is what I believe is causing the stuttering issue, however I'm not sure how to remedy it.
I've run LatencyMon which seems to show that I'm encountering an unusual amount of hard page faults. The result's can be seen here: LatencyMon Results
I've also run the Seagate diagnostics tool for HDDs and the disk passed all those tests.
I've tried disabling windows search, superfetch, and setting a custom page file size. None of these options helped.
My specs:
GPU : EVGA GTX 970 SC
CPU: AMD 8320
RAM: Kingston 8GB 1333 DDR3
HDD: Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162
OS: Windows 10
Potentially also worth noting, I've seen the disk hit 100% while idling, which is strange. However it doesn't happen often, and doesn't seem to otherwise impact performance. Also, I don't understand why it has so many hard pagefaults. I have 8GB of RAM, and by monitoring my RAM usage I can see I've never exhausted 100% of my physical memory resources. Normally I max out at around 6GB of memory usage. Am I correct in my understanding that the system shouldn't encounter hard page faults until it's exhausted all of it's physical memory resources?
Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
When playing games I have an issue with FPS stuttering/drops. It will drop for less than a second, then resume a normal frame rate. After a lot of troubleshooting I believe it's an issue with the HDD or RAM. My HDD will max out at 100% disk usage while playing games. Then it has thousands of hard page faults. This is what I believe is causing the stuttering issue, however I'm not sure how to remedy it.
I've run LatencyMon which seems to show that I'm encountering an unusual amount of hard page faults. The result's can be seen here: LatencyMon Results
I've also run the Seagate diagnostics tool for HDDs and the disk passed all those tests.
I've tried disabling windows search, superfetch, and setting a custom page file size. None of these options helped.
My specs:
GPU : EVGA GTX 970 SC
CPU: AMD 8320
RAM: Kingston 8GB 1333 DDR3
HDD: Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162
OS: Windows 10
Potentially also worth noting, I've seen the disk hit 100% while idling, which is strange. However it doesn't happen often, and doesn't seem to otherwise impact performance. Also, I don't understand why it has so many hard pagefaults. I have 8GB of RAM, and by monitoring my RAM usage I can see I've never exhausted 100% of my physical memory resources. Normally I max out at around 6GB of memory usage. Am I correct in my understanding that the system shouldn't encounter hard page faults until it's exhausted all of it's physical memory resources?
Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
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